ABSTRACT
This chapter describes margins as a lens through which to interrogate some forms of political emancipation of marginal(ized) individuals and groups through voice and visibility. It concentrates on some instances of activism on issues of sexual politics in South Africa. The chapter seeks to contribute to theoretical discussions around Christopher Stroud's linguistic citizenship approach, itself grounded on Nancy Fraser's (1995) distinction between affirmation and transformation as tools of social justice. Quite the contrary, colonies and metropoles were mutually constitutive, creating entangled relations of social, cultural, economic, and epistemological interdependency. In contrast, transformative strategies redress inequities by unsettling and dismantling the very structures that underpin social and economic divisions. As post-structuralism taught that dyadic thinking is intrinsically reductionist for several reason. It is bound up with processes of epistemological power whereby one element of the binary is recast as better, more suitable, or academically 'cooler' than the other.
